Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana Revival
Closing: February 25, 2024Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana - 2023 Off-Broadway History , Info & More
The Pershing Square Signature Center [Irene Diamond Stage]
480 West 42nd Street (between Dyer and 10th Avenues) New York, NY 10036
In Tennessee Williams’s The Night of the Iguana, a defrocked clergyman encounters inside disturbances amid outside disturbances during one stormy night at the Costa Verde Hotel in Acapulco as the world prepares for World War II. After four women of different ages and backgrounds, along with a 97-year-old poet, engage in the clergyman’s spiritual struggles, their lives leap dramatically forward. And the catalytic, defrocked clergyman survives the night.
Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana - 2023 - Off-Broadway Cast
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THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA: WILLIAMS AT HIS BEST, PRODUCTION NOT
4 / 10
Shortened and much tweaked, it eliminates, for instance, Nazi enthusiasts Herr Fahrenkopf and Frau Fahrenkopf, played broadly on stage now by Michael Leigh Cook and Alena Acker. Many other redactions crop up to tighten Williams’ solo work. Able to open up the setting, Huston occasionally leaves the veranda for ogling Gardner’s water frolicking with Pedro and Pancho, no visual letdown. Oh, well, that’s how the collaborative arts sometimes go.
'The Night of the Iguana' review
6 / 10
Daly’s Shannon is competent, but his jittery gruffness doesn’t leave enough room for sympathy, and it’s not exactly crazed enough to insert a sense of exciting theatricality in the midst of the more human (and maybe more banal) crisis of faith and sanity. Lichty’s Hannah, in comparison, is soft, gentle, perhaps prudish. She is supposed to be tender where Shannon is prickly, serene where he is sweaty. But her dramatic dilemma — her loneliness and the way in which her clear-eyed belief in connection contrasts with Shannon’s failure of faith — feel a bit undercooked. Her performance is reminiscent of Mia Farrow in Woody Allen movies, with the timbre of Jane Fonda’s voice, but without the forcefulness. Between the pair, there isn’t enough thrust, even if it’s to get through the evening with one’s scruples or heart intact.
by Nicole Rosky - December 23, 2023
Tennessee Williams's timeless masterpiece, The Night of the Iguana is back onstage in NYC! BroadwayWorld was on hand for opening night and we're taking you inside the big day in this video.
by Bruce Glikas - December 18, 2023
La Femme Theatre Productions just celebrated opening night of Tennessee Williams's timeless masterpiece, The Night of the Iguana. Check out photos from the big night!
by Stephi Wild - December 18, 2023
An all new production of Tennessee Williams's timeless masterpiece The Night of the Iguana, directed by Tony Award nominee Emily Mann, has officially opened Off-Broadway! Read the reviews for The Night of the Iguana here!
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Other Productions of Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana
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| 1976 | Broadway |
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| 1988 | Broadway |
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| 1996 | Broadway |
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| 2017 | Regional (US) |
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| 2019 | West End |
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| 2023 | Off-Broadway |
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